Food Fairy Lord

Chapter 651 I would rather break my bones than give you this flower (Part )

Like a deflated ball, the high-pressure mercury vapor turned into a weak groan, and mercury liquid trickled out from the gap in the jade tiger, burning Yu Sicheng's own back first.

But he was completely unable to move now. The price of accepting [Mercury Hua Floating Raft] piercing his Dantian was to become completely one with it. Even his true Qi could hardly function independently. When [Mercury Hua Floating Raft] exploded, his body could tune in with it without any delay and enjoy the benefits it brought. But once it "died", his whole body would be like being fixed to a corpse.

Pei Ye now knew that this set of dragon gold bones was not a mechanical power-assisting device like wooden limbs. It was truly cast into the human body in a "living" state, piercing the Dantian, entwining the skin and flesh, and truly constituted a part of the human body.

He pressed and pulled the sword downwards, and when he pulled it back, he cut off Yu Sicheng's heart. Then he pressed the sword again and stabbed it into his lower abdomen. He staggered and knocked Yu Sicheng to the ground, and the entire sword penetrated him.

The two men fell on the ground. Pei Ye gasped for a while and stood up holding the hilt of the sword. Yu Sicheng lay on the ground trembling stiffly, his eyes dimmed, and a mixture of blood and mercury flowed out of the wound.

The spiritual body after it was rolled up was not so fragile. It would be difficult for him to die even if his heart and dantian were pierced. But at this time, the entire skeleton was destroying his body from the inside, and the disintegrating and collapsing floating raft was taking his life away at the same time.

Pei Ye panted for a while, he looked down at Yu Sicheng's eyes which were gradually turning into the color of stones, and then he felt that he was right, this was indeed still an extension of the battle twenty-three years ago. At that time, the person lying in front of him did not break in, and it was still the same today.

He took a deep breath, smeared the remaining blood on the blade, squatted down and cut off his head.

Many Roselle flowers gently flowed towards Pei Ye, sank into the wound, and saved the life of this body.

Li Xizhou walked up from behind and squatted in front of Yu Sicheng's broken body. He picked out a delicate Luoshenmu peach from the broken neck. Pei Ye turned around and saw that her face was pale and shaky: "Why are you bleeding so much? Are you bathing the sword?"

Li Xizhou did not answer, but reached out and picked the flower.

The two of them were quiet for a while, enjoying the time when their tense nerves and bones relaxed. Slowly, the entire area in front of the Luoshen Palace became quiet again, a large number of bubbles dissipated and floated up, the water temperature also dropped, but there were fewer Roselle flowers, and the light was much dimmer.

"Your blood is really useful." Pei Ye said, "I didn't expect it to be like this."

"If you hadn't always misled me with your 'Qilin Fire', I would have thought of it earlier." Li Xizhou glanced at him.

"...That doesn't make sense." Pei Ye said, "I was misled by you. You didn't react to the name 'Ziliang' at all. I thought you knew everything in the palace. It turns out you didn't even know that Yu Sicheng had two names."

"It's not that we can't find out, we just haven't thought about it that way." Li Xizhou didn't refute, "Because Yu Sicheng has never used this name. When he entered the palace as a eunuch thirty years ago, he was nicknamed 'Xiao Yu'er'. Some rumors say that he was given this name because he was bullied and played with by the palace people. Later, when the current emperor ascended the throne, he gave him the name 'Sicheng', and his position also rose... Guo You called him Ziliang because they knew each other before entering the palace. The two orphans rushed into the palace to seek survival because of the war. It's just that probably because Guo You was handsome and had a pulse, he was selected into the imperial army; Yu Sicheng was short and ugly, so he was castrated and did odd jobs."

"Hmm, so only Guo You hasn't changed and keeps calling him that."

"Yes, I am naturally unaware of this private address from twenty years ago."

"So, Guo You followed the late queen's instructions and left the 'guilty scales' on the Mercury Raft without informing Yu Sicheng." Pei Ye paused for a moment, "It was this incident that caused Guo You to go crazy and Yu Sicheng's personality to change drastically."

"Ah."

Pei Ye was quiet for a while, thinking about the ups and downs of the past. The image of Wei Qingju became clearer in his mind. When he thought of this, he turned his head to look at Li Xizhou: "Speaking of which, why is your blood so magical?"

“…This is mirage blood.”

"Mirage blood?"

"Well, the most essential and deepest thing in the blood of the scale clan is the mirage blood. After some unknown steps, it can probably be extracted." Li Xizhou lowered his head and said, "I know that I have this blood in my body, which was passed down from my mother, but it is entangled with the unicorn blood, and the two are in conflict, and neither can defeat the other... A big purpose of my search for my mother's remains is to solve this matter."

Pei Ye was stunned for a moment, then he remembered the rumor that Meng'er had said: "So... the late queen left behind a method to wash away the unicorn blood, is that true?"

Li Xizhou nodded: "Remember Guo You said that mother gave him Jiaojin in order to let him extract something from it? I think it was Mirage Blood. There are many signs that mother put a lot of effort into Kirin Blood, but after she died, those things were not left behind."

Pei Ye paused for a moment and said, "Yu Sicheng also said the four words 'Key to White Water', what does that mean?"

"That's what I've been guessing, and now I've confirmed it from him." Li Xizhou said, "Remember the analogy I made with you before, that Luoshen is like the ancient king's prince in this era?"

"Ah."

"Then what is left in Luoshen Palace is the crown of the prince." Li Xizhou, "If you wear it, you will have the status of the prince... and you can inherit the legacy deep in the mirage."

Pei Ye nodded slowly. At this moment, he remembered Yu Sicheng's behavior of accommodating Jiao and people, and the existence of "Yu Ziliang". However, Li Xizhou had already stood up shakily: "It's almost time. Let's go out first."

Pei Ye moved his legs, paused, turned around, and saw Luo Weiyou standing on the stone waving at him. He turned around and said, "Um... you can't see Luo Weiyou, right... do you want me to tell you a few words?"

"..."

"Your Highness?"

"No need, I don't need to talk to my mother here." She pursed her lips several times, and finally raised her head slightly, as if a little stubborn.

"Oh."

Yu Sicheng's body was left here. Pei Ye originally wanted to carry it up, but Li Xizhou only let him carry the head, and then he fell on Pei Ye's back.

She really couldn't stand steadily, which made sense. If he carried Yu Sicheng on his back, he couldn't carry her.

Pei Ye picked up the listless kitten. Because his life was restored, the kitten was able to escape from its dying situation.

Finally, he turned around and smiled at Luo Weiyou behind him. He carried Li Xizhou and the kitten on his back and walked away from Luoshen Palace step by step.

Luo Shenhua regained a lot of strength, but his injuries did not heal so quickly. He still staggered when he walked, especially since his clothes were really torn and his body was covered in blood. Li Xizhou on his back was limp and attached to him, like a boneless corpse.

Pei Ye couldn't help it again: "Your Highness is really interesting. No one beat you or scolded you when you came here, but you almost bled yourself dry with a knife."

"..."

"You left a large pool of fish, and I only used a small teacup." Pei Ye swayed his steps, feeding her with true energy, "If I had killed Yu Sicheng a little slower, I think you would have died here."

Li Xizhou didn't say anything, just resting his chin on Pei Ye's shoulder. The mirage was very quiet. When there was no battle, it really looked like a dream. "Ming Qitian told you that 'it's okay to lose'" she suddenly said.

"......Ah?" Pei Ye was at a loss.

He turned his head, wondering if he had heard something wrong.

Li Xizhou looked at him lazily with his golden face: "But I will lead you to win all the time."

"..."

Pei Ye turned around silently and walked away.

"You..." He pursed his lips after a while, "Can you compare with Miss Ming?"

Li Xizhou stretched his head over his shoulder and stared at his face closely: "What does 'can you compare with' mean? Who can 'compared with' who?"

Pei Ye hid aside and stopped talking.

Li Xizhou did not ask him any more questions. After a while, Pei Ye walked out of Jingchi. She got off his back and looked much better due to her true energy. "Give me Yu Sicheng's head, and you can go back to Zhujing Palace."

"……where did you go?"

Li Xizhou did not answer. After taking the heavy head, she pursed her lips, but her golden face did not reveal anything. She said in a calm voice: "I'm going to the Purple Palace."

Pei Ye watched Li Xizhou leave this realm, and he held the kitten in his arms for a while. It was still a spring night with a bright moon in the sky. He looked back at the Mingyue Palace in the mirage. The eaves were still as fresh as before, and there seemed to be lights on in the courtyard.

There should have never been a dried-up pool of water in that place, but it was clearly standing there. Pei Ye stared at it for a while, and suddenly an idea that made his heart beat fast came to his mind.

But he paused, then suppressed it temporarily, walked out of the mirage along the path, and returned to the Red Mirror Hall.

……

……

Walking up three flights of ninety-nine steps under the moonlight, we arrived at the door of the Purple Palace.

The eunuch who responded was standing at the door. When he saw Li Xizhou coming over covered in blood with a head in his hand, he had no expression on his face and didn't say a word. He bowed respectfully, turned around and walked into the hall to report.

After a while, he came out and Li Xizhou walked in.

There were very few palace servants in the Purple Palace, with only a few necessary ones standing in the shadows. This palace was neither bright nor dark, but peaceful and quiet, with the temperament that should be expected from a place where an emperor should reside.

The Tang Emperor sat at his desk, flipping through piles of memorials.

This was what he did most often. Unlike what many people imagined, even though he had been in office for nearly thirty years, he still had no trusted ministers. Every day, he handled the entire vast empire, from east to west, north to south, military to criminal, agricultural to commercial, and everything in between. This had not changed in the past twenty-seven years. In his hands, the Tang Dynasty was like a patient slowly recovering and becoming strong again. He understood his empire as well as he understood his own body.

In the eyes of Emperor Tang, reviewing memorials was perhaps more important than most other things, so when many people entered this hall, he would not stop, but today when Li Xizhou walked in, he put down his pen and raised his head.

Li Xizhou has taken off his mask.

"I killed Yu Sicheng." she said.

Emperor Tang looked at the head in her hand for a while, then nodded gently: "What's the matter?"

"I want a handwritten note from you about the marriage of Prince Yan." Li Xizhou looked up at him, "Do you still remember Concubine Mei?"

"how?"

"Li Youlong has to leave here."

"She is real blood." Emperor Tang paused and said in a calm voice, but his tone did not sound like opposition but rather like a reminder.

"I know," Li Xizhou said, "but I'm the eldest sister."

No one spoke in the Zi Chen Hall. The two of them looked at each other quietly. They had eyes of almost the same color, and eyebrows of the same shape.

The Tang Emperor lowered his head, picked up a piece of white paper and wrote a few lines.

Li Xizhou waited in silence.

The Tang Emperor handed the written paper to the palace maid, who passed it down to Li Xizhou.

Li Xizhou took it and stood there for a while without saying anything.

Emperor Tang also looked at her quietly.

After a moment, Li Xizhou bowed and said, "Father, I will take my leave."

"Well, walk slowly."

Li Xizhou turned and left the hall, stepped out of the threshold and into the light of the bright moon at night. The shadows under the candlelight in the Zichen Hall seemed to be chasing her.

The Tang Emperor suddenly said, "Close the door."

(End of this chapter)